Super Stepper Slot by Playtech

Under the retro Vegas dressing, all bulb marquees and a flaming sign burning on top of the chrome cabinet, sits a small machine: three reels, three rows, nine fixed lines paying three of a kind from the left. The reels are bright white drums edged with gold stars, blue diamonds and little blue flames, and the icons come straight off an old fruit machine - a fiery red 7, a stacked triple gold BAR, a gold bell, a red star.

The stepper is a ladder running down the side of the reels, and it's the reason to load this one. Flame symbols light its rungs as they land, and the rung you reach sets a multiplier applied to whatever that spin pays. Two flames is x2, three x3, climbing one for one to x5, then it jumps: six flames reach up to x18, seven up to x40, eight up to x80, and a full nine up to x150.

Then there's the Super Multiplier. It activates at random on a single base spin, and for that one spin every rung of the ladder is worth five times its usual value. Nine flames under that boost turn x150 into x750. That's how a cabinet this small reaches its ceiling.

Landing three Bonus symbols on a line hands you 5 free games, and every one of those spins runs with the Super Multiplier already switched on, so the whole ladder plays on the x5 boost from first spin to last. Prefer not to wait? The buy option opens with a spin of a bonus-only reel set that decides whether you get 5, 10 or 20 free games. A lightning Ante Bet toggle raises the stake for better trigger odds, and the red WILD oval fills in for everything except the Bonus.